Asatru Folk Assembly - November 03, 2023


Where Did I Come From？ (Academy Storytime)


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18 minutes

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1,789

Sentence count

144

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00:00:00.000 hey everybody it's time for another story are we ready
00:00:26.160 Do you remember I asked last week, where did we come from?
00:00:31.400 Did you guys figure it out?
00:00:33.660 Well, we're going to find out today, okay?
00:00:37.660 And before we do that, it's the last week of the school year.
00:00:41.740 We're almost done.
00:00:43.000 Time to wrap it up.
00:00:44.640 Have you guys learned a lot this year?
00:00:47.180 All right.
00:00:48.060 Well, let's have a look at the front of the book, okay?
00:00:51.800 There it is.
00:00:53.760 Where did I come from?
00:00:55.420 A book about origins for us, the true children like you, by folk builder Jim Cummings.
00:01:03.740 All right. Are you ready? Let's go see what the book has.
00:01:09.680 I got real small again. Do you remember how I did that? One, two, three. Yay.
00:01:15.020 All right, so this book was written for some very special people.
00:01:22.360 Brian, Gordon, Mason, and Madeline.
00:01:29.640 All right, let's see what it is.
00:01:33.300 Have you ever wondered where you came from, where everything came from?
00:01:39.600 Hmm.
00:01:40.360 Long, long ago, our people wondered the same thing.
00:01:48.980 Moved by the gods, they created what we call lore.
00:01:53.720 The lore tells stories to help us understand things.
00:02:00.740 Hmm, do you know who that is?
00:02:02.620 He's wondering too.
00:02:04.240 in the lore we hear about a time when nothing existed yet there were no people no stars or
00:02:16.400 planets there was not even a sun all there was was a big chasm like a deep valley in the middle
00:02:25.980 of the universe. This chasm was called Gnuungagap. Gnuungagap. Gnuungagap.
00:02:43.560 Ooh, scary. Big void in the middle of nothing.
00:02:47.880 In Ganungagap, the matter and energy that everything, everywhere is made from came together.
00:03:00.400 Our people long ago thought of the matter and energy as ice and fire.
00:03:08.320 There was also what we think of as magic in the big chasm.
00:03:12.100 We can think of this magic power as the will of Odin, or Odinic force, or life force.
00:03:24.420 That's right, even before Odin lived in Asgard, his will existed in Gnungagap.
00:03:36.900 Fire and ice in the big chasm, Gnungagap.
00:03:42.100 The will of Odin did not want to just stay in a big chasm in space with matter and energy.
00:03:54.100 It wanted to have new ways to use its power to create and to bring order.
00:04:02.100 So the will of Odin used the matter and energy to create order and life.
00:04:09.100 The first creation was Yggdrasil.
00:04:18.080 Yggdrasil is the basis of all order in the cosmos.
00:04:28.280 Our ancestors thought of Yggdrasil as a giant invisible ash tree.
00:04:34.880 The roots and branches reached to every world.
00:04:43.860 Yggdrasil
00:04:45.220 But having order and Yggdrasil were still not enough.
00:04:55.040 The will of Odin wanted more life,
00:04:58.840 and for each life form to be better than the ones that came before.
00:05:02.880 before. The next creatures to form were a giant named Ymir, Ymir, Ymir, and a giant
00:05:16.880 cow or aurochs called Audhumbla. These beings from the lore show life slowly becoming better,
00:05:36.240 but they still had a lot of chaos in them.
00:05:39.840 See, the cow, Althumbra, and the giant, Ymir, they're still not right. 0.97
00:05:54.580 Ymir was a very strange being, sort of like a monster.
00:06:01.200 He still had too much chaos in him. 0.89
00:06:03.720 But remember, the divine will wants the living creatures to get better and better.
00:06:12.480 So, from Ymir himself came more life.
00:06:19.180 The lore tells us that under his left arm, a male and female giant grew.
00:06:27.120 They were named Mimir and Bestla.
00:06:31.200 Mimir and Besla were not monstrous like Inir, but beautiful.
00:06:39.240 They were the first of the good giants, or Etans.
00:06:44.700 These Etans are forces that are helpful to the gods and men.
00:06:52.440 You see under his arm?
00:06:56.140 Mimir and Besla. 0.98
00:07:01.200 Ymir's chaotic nature also made bad creatures. 0.89
00:07:07.480 From his feet came a horrible three-headed giant named Berglmir. 0.92
00:07:14.680 This was the first of the bad giants, or Thursis.
00:07:20.620 These giants hate the order of the universe and everything the gods have made.
00:07:28.160 They fight against men and the gods to destroy everything.
00:07:37.480 Between his feet, we get the big mean giant, three heads, Berglmere.
00:07:45.980 Adhumbla, do you remember her, the giant cow, Adhumbla also helped to make better kinds
00:07:57.140 of creatures. She licked the ice in Ganungagap, and slowly as she licked away, a man was revealed.
00:08:08.980 His name was Buri. He was big, strong, and beautiful, but he still had chaos in him too.
00:08:18.980 He drank milk from Althumbla, and he actually gave birth to a son, Bur. 0.99
00:08:28.200 Now, we all know that men can't have babies. 1.00
00:08:33.480 This shows the chaos that was still a part of Buri. 0.59
00:08:38.260 But as the divine will pushed things to get more perfect, his son Bur was not like him. 0.64
00:08:46.480 Bur married the good giantess Besla.
00:08:54.260 Bur and Besla.
00:08:59.780 Now, Ymir and Alhumbla made new beings in very strange ways. 0.84
00:09:09.320 This was because they still had so much chaos in them.
00:09:13.360 But as more life was created, the creatures became closer and closer to what the divine will, Odin's will, wanted.
00:09:26.800 And this meant that children should come from the union of a man and a woman, like Burr and Besla.
00:09:35.580 They had three sons, Odin, Vili, and Vey.
00:09:44.580 Wait a minute, did we just say that Bur and Besla had a son named Odin?
00:09:51.780 Yes, the divine will now had made life good enough that it could embody a living being, our great god Odin himself.
00:10:05.580 See here, we have Odin, Vili, and Vey.
00:10:13.580 The gods spent time learning and growing more powerful.
00:10:19.580 There are many good stories telling how they did that.
00:10:23.580 But in this book, we want to continue with the story of how the lore tells us things came to be.
00:10:30.580 came to be. While the gods, Odin and his brothers, were working to get better and stronger,
00:10:39.580 Ymir and Althumbla were still there. They didn't change or get better. They were the
00:10:47.540 same old chaotic beings. Remember that Althumbla licked the ice in Gnungagap for something 1.00
00:10:56.200 to eat. You might wonder what Ymir ate. Well, he drank the milk from Althumbla. But Ymir 1.00
00:11:07.340 was stupid and greedy. He wanted more than the milk, so he killed Althumbla to eat her. 1.00
00:11:17.200 Oh no, he killed the Alhumbra. 0.95
00:11:23.860 When Odin, Vili, and Vey heard that Ymir had killed Alhumbra, they decided that they had had enough of him.
00:11:34.560 His time was past as life had moved on to a higher level. 0.77
00:11:40.200 The gods killed Ymir. They used his body to create the greater universe. 0.98
00:11:47.200 worlds, suns, and stars, the earth, which we call Midgard, water, plants, and animals,
00:12:00.200 everything we see around us now in the natural world.
00:12:04.860 So we can see how, through Odin's will, the raw matter and energy in Gnungagap
00:12:12.620 was used to form Ymir and Althumbra.
00:12:17.760 Then beings got better and wiser
00:12:21.080 until nature was ready for the gods themselves
00:12:24.920 to be born into it.
00:12:28.480 Finally, the gods took the raw matter 0.67
00:12:31.460 and energy from Ymir 0.96
00:12:33.860 to make the beautiful natural universe
00:12:37.120 we live in still today.
00:12:38.940 Oh no, but it's going to be for better. It's going to make the universe.
00:12:48.600 But you may ask, what about people? Where did we come from?
00:12:55.520 Now we will tell that part of the story.
00:12:59.180 The gods had made a beautiful, orderly universe.
00:13:03.900 But they knew they still were not done.
00:13:07.620 They wanted helpers, men and women, who would help them to keep order and make things better.
00:13:16.520 One day, Odin, Vili, and Vey were walking near the sea on the beautiful world they had made.
00:13:26.380 They found two trees growing so close together the branches seemed connected.
00:13:33.660 Our lore tells us these trees grew from seeds that fell from Yggdrasil.
00:13:41.460 So we know they had a special connection to that great tree that is the basis of all order in the universe.
00:13:52.080 You see the two trees? They came from Yggdrasil.
00:13:56.300 Odin and his brothers took these two trees and formed the first two of our people.
00:14:07.660 Ask, Amman, and Imbla, a woman.
00:14:13.360 Odin sent his breath into them, making them his special people.
00:14:18.720 With his breath, they also received a spirit or soul.
00:14:25.000 Odin's brother Vili gave them speech, hearing, and sight.
00:14:30.700 He also made their forms beautiful to behold.
00:14:35.060 The third brother, Vey, gave them good minds that could think through problems,
00:14:42.340 and also gave them the ability to move on their own.
00:14:45.680 You see, this is Asg and Imbla with Odin, Vili, and Vey as they get ready and get all their gifts from the gods.
00:15:01.120 Odin told Asg and his wife Imbla that they were created as perfect beings.
00:15:07.800 He told them to be the parents of our world, our people.
00:15:11.400 He also reminded them they must do their best to live according to nature and help to uphold nature's law.
00:15:21.760 Asg and Embla listened to Odin.
00:15:25.440 They had 24 children, 12 sons and 12 daughters.
00:15:31.580 They taught their children to worship the gods, how to work for the things they needed in life,
00:15:38.100 and to always strive to become better.
00:15:42.700 Over many years, our people grew in number,
00:15:47.100 making many wonderful things.
00:15:51.160 One day, two of those people,
00:15:54.340 your mother and father, met.
00:15:57.680 Though the love of your parents,
00:16:00.700 another child of Odin was born.
00:16:03.140 You see, Asken and Imbra, there are twelve children?
00:16:12.060 Sorry, twenty-four children.
00:16:15.240 Twelve girls and twelve boys.
00:16:21.120 Now you have learned how the divine will of Odin brought life into the universe.
00:16:28.060 You know how the will made the life it created better and better.
00:16:31.840 until the gods were ready to be born into the universe themselves.
00:16:37.180 And you know that the gods' best creation was our people.
00:16:43.260 Always remember that the gods put some of themselves into us when they made us.
00:16:49.440 Odin and all our gods live inside of you,
00:16:53.080 and they want to help you to become better and better, just like them.
00:17:02.400 See, little kids, boy and girl, just like you?
00:17:06.360 Remember, Odin's always there with us.
00:17:12.180 And that is the end of our story.
00:17:15.100 Is everybody happy?
00:17:16.800 Did we learn something?
00:17:18.720 Are we ready for the next thing?
00:17:22.200 Well, if you remember, let me get big real quick, okay?
00:17:26.600 One, two, three.
00:17:29.740 there we go all right so that was the end of the story again and guess what school's almost over
00:17:39.720 so it'll be a little bit before you get any more stories but i promise i'm working extra hard to
00:17:46.440 get my friends to come help us we're gonna have lots and lots of stories next year way more than
00:17:53.600 we had this year you might see those again too you want to hear those stories again
00:17:58.500 All right. Well, everybody have fun. Enjoy your summer and be good. Okay. All right. Bye.
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